A recent podcast entitled Mill Creek View Tennessee Podcast, led by host Steve Abroamowicz, who is also the Editor and Chief of The Mill Creek View newspaper, featured a familiar guest, our own Joshua Travers law enforcement liaison for SIA. The episode begins with the host explaining how Saved in America got started and how it has to date helped rescue over 260 girls from the horrors of human trafficking.

The Need for SIA

While no one wishes it were the case, in reality, even in America, young girls need protection from gangs who have expanded their product line from weapons and drugs to include human lives as well. These criminals understand that a girl can be sold time and time again and therefore earn them revenue time and time again. The reality of modern-day slavery and the fact that it is thriving in America is shocking to many people who have no idea how prevalent crime is within the confines of America’s borders. 

How The Process Begins

Travers explains that the victims of human trafficking in their experience are mostly girls, by an extremely high percentage, so all the cases they have overseen have involved girls, not boys. At the beginning of this process, sometimes, SIA contacts parents and local law enforcement to help families find missing or exploited children. Other times, this contact is initiated by parents asking for help. They can also be contacted by a representative from a foster home or rescue group. No matter how the relationship begins, SIA’s goal is to step in and help find the missing children, ideally before they are sold into a sex trafficking ring. 

All are Free of Charge

What makes this service that much more amazing aside from the time and attention given to these cases by the team of professional volunteers who are all licensed private investigators, is the fact that this is all given to families, or communities free of charge. This means no family, group, community, or rescue home will have to pay to get the help of SIA to find a runaway child. In many cases, when SIA gets involved, this resolves the issue before the girl is sold into a trafficking ring, saving them from the horrors of that reality. Of course, that does not mean they won’t still need help to recover from the event, but thankfully, SIA helps with that as well.